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I agree with how great a group experience in a big theater can be when seeing a film, classic or not--but it's like bottling lightning. I saw SNOW WHITE twice in theaters over the years and the audience just wasn't an inspired lot, but I liked the film anyway--and since getting it on DVD I have...

Another violation here, I guess. I'm balding far more than I want to, so I can't figure why people with a bountiful head of hair would want to shave it off! I'd give anything to keep a full head of hair. :b

D'oh! Thanks, Thomas T. The original BAD SEED poster to me, design wise, looks a few years ahead of its time, more '62 than '56. Now I know better. :D P.S. If you want to see another great performance by a young actress as a really rotten kid, watch Bonita Granville in THESE THREE (1936). A...

The FREAKS cover is wonderful--obviously using original 1932 graphics. I like it when cover design is true to the period the film was released in. The "DAMNED" art looks very much like '60s poster art. THE BAD SEED looks somehow new, but looks okay to me.

LOVE HAPPY is hardly even a Marilyn Monroe film--she's in it for about two minutes. It's more accurately a Harpo film, with Chico and not much of Groucho.It's usually best remembered for the finale, where Harpo is escaping from thugs via rooftop neon signs.

I am speechless.

Rumor is that Peter Jackson is doing his best to lure 96 year-old Fay Wray to do a cameo. I hope it happens.

DUCK SOUP was a Paramount film--the Marx Bros's last one there, as it were. I've always had a soft spot for THE COCOANUTS and ANIMAL CRACKERS, since they preserve--for better or worse--the musical comedy conventions of the day. There's also a rare 2-color Technicolor test done on the set of...

This is related, in a way--awhile back A & E released boxed sets of the '70s British series UPSTAIRS DOWNSTAIRS, but those who designed the packaging obviously didn't have a clue about the series since photos from various seasons were randomly thrown around without any regard to the chronology...

I'm a huge HM attraction fan (ever I visited the Disneyland version in 1970), and I just saw the DVD. I'm relieved that the film didn't trash the ride's whimsical legacy. The film was decent enough, but the bonus features really top matters. :D

Yeah, what's so wrong with that one?

I recall seeing the TV commercial for this movie in '62 and was terrified (I was six years old, mind you). I saw the "musicalized" edition on cable too and, well, having a high tolerance for weird stuff, I didn't find it so bad. :D

And I taped it because I figure a proper DVD release seems beyond the pale at the moment--and a Best Picture release too! What gives? :angry:

Good to know RAGTIME will eventually appear. Now, if only LiL ABNER could happen.... :D

I thought RAGTIME was due this summer. :frowning:

My top five: BEAUTY AND THE BEAST SNOW WHITE & THE SEVEN DWARFS LILO & STITCH THE JUNGLE BOOK THE LITTLE MERMAID :D

I'm going by those movies that I saw in a theater as a kid, and in this case this puts me into the 1960s. Recent purchases based on these nostalgic stirrings include: THE ABSENT MINDED PROFESSOR SON OF FLUBBER THOSE MAGNIFICENT MEN IN THEIR FLYING MACHINES MARY POPPINS (upcoming edition)...

Now we really want to see the cleavage--glazed or not. :D

We'd still like to see a screen cap. ;) :D ;)

With breadsticks?

A free pizza to anyone who has even >seen< an Olsen & Johnson comedy. :D ;) :D

Universal, you have '40s comedy team Olsen & Johnson in your vault--several one-hour movies that could be easily placed on a double DVD. Price it fast and quick at $14.95 and make us vintage comedy fans happy. :D

Sounds like a case of DVD Burnout, which can happen to the best of us. For me 2004 is the best year yet for DVD. Things are really blossoming with catalog titles and state of the art new titles--what's not to get excited over? I too have a ridiculous stack of unwatched DVDs, but they inspire...

I would put BEAUTY & THE BEAST in the Top Ten without a blink, and LILO & STITCH at most an #11 !!! :D

There is so much incredible stuff to be found among the Vitaphone shorts; I really wish the "Dawn of Sound" lasers get transferred to DVD someday. :D

Whoever stepped down from the board in 1984 (Ron Miller? Card Walker?) to make way for Eisner, it wasn't Roy Disney Sr. since he died in 1971.

I apologize for this recurring anecdote of mine, but I couldn't resist, given the theme of this thread--when I was 12 I actually stood on the fakey stagey set of ICE STATION ZEBRA! It was MGM in 1967, at a time when backlot tours were given. The whole arctic set was there, with the top of a fake...

I think most serious film fans can reel off about 2,000 more catalog titles left--for starters. ;)

That was a very moving account, susurran. When I saw the movie in a crowded theater I never before witnessed such a solemn pall after the lights came up, as the audience slowly filed out. Many stayed in their seats, crying.

Hehehehe....I recall when I saw TORA TORA TORA (1970) in a theater and saw Lynch as a general. I thought, "hey, there's that TV guy!" The Van Dyke set is interesting for alot of reasons, especially now that I'm looking at it from a 40-year perspective. Ouch. :D